¹⁸ “I will not leave you as orphans; ^(A)I will come to you.

^28 (A)You heard me say to you, ^(B)‘I am going away, and I will come to you.’ If you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I ^(C)am going to the Father, for ^(D)the Father is greater than I.

²² Jesus said to him, “If it is my will that he remain ^(A)until ^(B)I come, what is that to you? ^(C)You follow me!” ²³ So the saying spread abroad among ^(D)the brothers^[a] that this disciple was not to die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he was not to die, but, “If it is my will that he remain until I come, what is that to you?”